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The Ohio History Connection's mission is to spark discovery of Ohio history! We help people connect with Ohio’s past to understand the present and create a better future. With over 180 staff members, hundreds of volunteers and thousands of partners in historical societies, local history groups and local and state government, the Ohio History Connection champions all Ohio history, including the 50+ historic sites in the Society's network throughout Ohio.

The Ohio History Connection’s network of historical sites includes homes and memorials associated with US presidents such as Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, or Warren G. Harding. It includes early cultures and mound building sites such as Serpent Mound, Ft. Ancient, or Newark Earthworks. Some historic sites help visitors learn about the entrepreneurial and literary genius and diversity of Ohioans. Other historic sites in the network are nature preserves and are great places to hike and take photos such as Cedar Bog or Wahkeena.

Ohio Presidential Homes, Memorials and Monuments Collection

This slide collection documents the homes, memorials, and monuments related to the eight Presidents associated with Ohio: James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, and William Howard Taft. There are also images of the White House, the United States Capitol building, an American flag, and a statue of President Abraham Lincoln.Restricted: Special equipment required; appointment suggested.

Newton Hamilton Fairbanks Papers, 1912-1944

Fairbanks, Newton Hamilton, 1859-1937. Photocopies of Fairbanks material including two letters, one from William Howard Taft (4-15-12), one from Calvin Coolidge (1-25-24); pages 1-29 of Fairbanks's autobiography; two pages from a Fairbanks genealogy; and seven pages of newspaper clippings. Material mentions Fairbanks's life in Springfield, Ohio, and work with the Republican Party.

Ohio Presidential Homes, Memorials and Monuments Collection [graphic]

Publication information: 1948-1996.
114 slides with cardboard or plastic mounts : col. ; 35 mm.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Restricted: Special equipment required; appointment suggested.
This slide collection documents the homes, memorials, and monuments related to the eight Presidents associated with Ohio: James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, and William Howard Taft. There are also images of the White House, the United States Capitol building, an American flag, and a statue of President Abraham Lincoln.
This collection is available for the purpose of research. Consideration of copyright is the responsibility of the author or publisher.
Finding aid available in the repository.http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/123131716

Ulysses S. Grant presidential collection [graphic]

Publication information: [approximately 1856-197-]
approximately 123 photographic prints : black and white and albumen, some mounted ; 22 x 33 cm or smaller.
approximately 30 prints ; 30 x 22 cm or smaller.
25 ephemera. ; 30 x 24 cm or smaller.
53 postcards : black and white and color ; 23 x 16 cm or smaller.
1 photographic print : tintype ; 8 x 10 cm
2 albums ; 11 x 15 cm
Photographers J.P. Ball, Cowan's Photograph Gallery, Hoag & Quick & Co. Art Palace, Home Souvenir Co., Porter & Winter and Lewis P. Woltz.
Collection contains photographs, prints and ephemera related to the life, career and family of Ulysses S. Grant. Grant family members pictured in the collection include his father, Jesse Root Grant, his mother Hannah Simpson Grant, his wife, Julia Dent Grant, his siblings, children and grand children. There are portraits of Grant in military uniform during the Mexican and Civil Wars; during his presidency and near the time of his death in 1885. Also found here are images of the Grant funeral and tomb and copies of broadsides tributes, memorials, celebrations and political ephemera. Furthermore, there are photographs, postcards and brochures documenting Grant's homes. Views of Grant's birthplace include the cabin submerged in water during the 1937 flood and a photograph of Dr. John G. Rogers, the physician who assisted with Grant's birth, posed in front of the cabin. A carte de visite portrait of Dr. Rogers is also found in the collection. Additionally, there are reproductions of illustrations from magazines related to Grant and photographic reproductions of three drawings by Grant.
This collection is available for the purpose of research. Consideration of copyright is the responsibility of the author or publisher.
Ulysses S. Grant was the eighteenth president of the United States. Born April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio, he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1839. Grant graduated in 1843 and stationed near St. Louis, Mo. where he met Julia Boggs Dent. They married in 1848. Grant served in the Mexican War (1846-1848) and then at forts in Oregon and California until resigning from the Army in 1854. After failing in farming and real estate, he moved to Galena, Illinois to join his father and brothers in a leather goods business. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he helped recruit, equip, and drill troops in Galena and then accompanied them to Springfield, where he was appointed an aide and assigned to the state Adjutant General's office. He soon was appointed Brigadier General and commander of the District of Southeast Missouri. In 1862 he won the first major Union victory at Fort Donelson. In March 1864, Grant was appointed Lieutenant General and was given command of the armies of the United States. On April 2, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the Civil War. After the war Grant was appointed General of the Armies of the United States, and then Secretary of War. In 1868 he was elected President of the United States and in 1872 he won reelection. He moved to New York City after leaving the White House. Shortly before he died Grant composed two volumes of personal recollections of the Civil War. Grant passed away on July 23, 1885.
Finding aid is available in the repository.

Letter, Grover Cleveland and Daniel Lamont, 19 March 1885

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908. Letter regarding support of General Williams by the Mexican Veterans for appointment to the Mission to Mexico; signed by Daniel A. Lamont, private secretary to Cleveland and later Secretary of War.